291. Garden of Words ( Koto no ha no niwa )
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Makoto Shinkai
Actors: Miyu Irino, Kana Hanazawa, Fumi Hirano, Gou Maeda, Yuka Terasaki, Suguru Inoue
Plot: An expected encounter in a rainy garden changes the life of an aspiring shoe designer forever.
292. Last Tango in Paris
Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NC-17
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Actors: Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider, Maria Michi, Giovanna Galletti, Gitt Magrini, Catherine Allégret
Plot: A young Parisienne woman and a middle-aged American businessman, mourning
his wife's suicide, begin a passionate love affair where they don't reveal
names and agree their relationship will be based solely around sex.
293. Summer Stock
Year of Release: 1950
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Charles Walters
Actors: Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Phil Silvers, Eddie Bracken, Gloria DeHaven, Ray Collins
Plot: Jane Falbury runs a New England farm and, giving her actress friend Abigail a hand - allows her troupe to use her barn as a theater. Things get complicated when Judy falls for the director - a man who is engaged to the leading lady, Abigail.
294. Splendor in the Grass
Year of Release: 1961
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Elia Kazan
Actors: Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle, Audrey Christie, Barbara Loden, Zohra Lampert
295. Sayonara
Year of Release: 1957
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Joshua Logan
Actors: Marlon Brando, Patricia Owens, Red Buttons, Miiko Taka, Ricardo Montalban, James Garner
296. Smiles of a Summer Night ( Sommarnattens leende )
Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Swedish
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Ulla Jacobsson, Eva Dahlbeck, Harriet Andersson, Margit Carlqvist, Gunnar Björnstrand, Jarl Kulle
Plot: In turn-of-the century Sweden, the lawyer Fredrik Egerman and his virginal, young wife Anne attend the theater where an old flame, the amoral actress Desiree, catches his eye. Wanting to see how things play out, she invites the couple, along with her lover, jealous Count Malcolm and his wife Charlotte, along with the lawyer's son Henrik who finds himself drawn to Anne.
297. 1984 ( Nineteen Eighty-Four )
Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael Radford
Actors: John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton, Cyril Cusack, Gregor Fisher, James Walker
Plot: George Orwell's novel is adapted once again: A totalitarian future society
in which all news, information and even history is rewritten by those in
charge. One of the bureaucrats in charge of this process commits the crime
of falling in love and Big Brother isn't happy.
298. Impromptu
Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: James Lapine
Actors: Judy Davis, Hugh Grant, Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Julian Sands, Emma Thompson
Plot: In 1830s France composer/pianist Frédéric Chopin finds himself the subject of affection from the outspoken George Sand - the polar opposite of his own personality. Yet despite this difference, he finds himself drawn to her.
299. Monika, the Story of a Bad Girl aka Summer with Monika ( Sommaren med Monika )
Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Swedish
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Harriet Andersson, Lars Ekborg, Dagmar Ebbesen, Åke Fridell, Naemi Briese, Åke Grönberg
Plot: Wild, rebellions 17-year-oldl Monika shares an instant connection with 19-year-old Harry and their passion explodes during the summer heat on an isolated island. But life goes on - Monika becomes pregnant, they decide to marry and while Harry pursues a stable working-class life, Monika does not want to give up her fun.
300. Sliding Doors
Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Peter Howitt
Actors: Gwyneth Paltrow, John Hannah, John Lynch, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Zara Turner, Douglas McFerran
Plot: When Helen Quilley is fired from her PR job she wants nothing more than to go home - but she just misses her train... or does she? The film follows two very different parallel lives based on this one minor detail.
